Current graduate and undergraduate students:
Current graduate and undergraduate students:
Ryan Thong
Aaron Pen-Kruger
Harry Banh
Linh Ho
Taylor Brown
Thomas McKinley
Emily Weissling
Connor Vaughan
Sawyer Kaplan
High School Research Students
Abhinav Shah
Chloe Lui
Former Students
Zhisen Lai
Zhisen graduated in Fall 2025. He developed and validated a deep-learning denoiser for GRAND-like radio data, showing that faint air-shower pulses can be recovered with substantially improved signal-to-noise-ratio and with more antennas retained for direction and energy reconstruction. He is now pursuing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03818
Sarvesh Shinde
Sarvesh graduated in Fall 2025, his MSc thesis explored a new way to reconstruct the arrival directions of ultra high energy cosmic rays from radio array data. He combined air shower simulations with a physics-informed graph neural network within a simulation-based inference framework, showing that timing, amplitude, and polarization information can be folded into a single Bayesian reconstruction pipeline. He has been offered a PhD position at the University of Georgia.
Zach Mason
Zach graduated in Summer 2025 and is now a staff engineer at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His research developed a neural-Bayesian framework for reconstructing the directions of ultra-high-energy particles from nanosecond radio pulses with sub-degree precision, while explicitly accounting for bias. The work advances analysis methods for next-generation radio arrays such as GRAND, IceCube-Gen2, and AugerPrime Radio.
Publication: Phys.Rev.D 113 (2026) 6, 063018